iD Mobile is owned by Dixons Carphone and use Three as the host network.

As a result of these MVNOs being run by huge corporations, none of these are likely to go under at any time soon.

Well, Carphone Warehouse doesn't seem to be doing that great, so you never know - it might one day seek to dispose of its MVNO (perhaps selling it off). I wonder how many users it has and if they make good money?

iD Mobile is owned by Dixons Carphone and use Three as the host network.

As a result of these MVNOs being run by huge corporations, none of these are likely to go under at any time soon.

Well, Carphone Warehouse doesn't seem to be doing that great, so you never know - it might one day seek to dispose of its MVNO (perhaps selling it off). I wonder how many users it has and if they make good money?

They used to have talk mobile before the merger which used voda, but they binned it.

1pMobile is not a free or low cost calls network and I think the way they have their systems working I can’t see them folding anytime soon.

They have a constant revenue stream in how they work, much like a contract sim where you have to pay up every month but in 1p case, up front every 4 months and I think they have hit a little honey pot in the way they work.

Though of course you can’t say never say never as even the mighty have fallen in the consumer world of late so who knows who’s next.

I conducted a bit of research into 1p Mobile a few days ago and found they're part of the Utility Warehouse group of companies - and according to Company Check, they have quite a decent sum of cash in the bank.

So I'd like to retract my comment that stated I wouldn't be surprised if I saw see them disappearing soon.

Yes, back when Three launched (3 March 2003), all their stores were concessions within Superdrug stores if I remember correctly. Was definitely the case here in Swansea. A few years elapsed and Three bought a lot of defunct The Link stores and started operating stores standalone. A few smaller towns still have Three concessions built-in to Superdrug stores. An example of such a store still operating like this is the Haverfordwest Superdrug/Three store in South West Wales.

I conducted a bit of research into 1p Mobile a few days ago and found they're part of the Utility Warehouse group of companies - and according to Company Check, they have quite a decent sum of cash in the bank.

So I'd like to retract my comment that stated I wouldn't be surprised if I saw see them disappearing soon.

Yes, back when Three launched (3 March 2003), all their stores were concessions within Superdrug stores if I remember correctly. Was definitely the case here in Swansea. A few years elapsed and Three bought a lot of defunct The Link stores and started operating stores standalone. A few smaller towns still have Three concessions built-in to Superdrug stores. An example of such a store still operating like this is the Haverfordwest Superdrug/Three store in South West Wales.

Interesting, never knew that. If true, the holding company, Telecom Plus (TEP) is a billion pound company in the FTSE-250 so i think 1p mobile will be fine...

It's a case of whether the big parent company wants to keep funding a loss-making arm of the business. In many cases, large firms saw fit to go into mobile and then realised it wasn't a cash cow after all (at least not by simply doing what others already did and hoping your name/brand was enough).